Angela C. Smith

Angela Christine Smith (16 August 1961-) was the Labour MP for Penistone and Stocksbridge from 5 May 2005, succeeding Helen Jackson.

Biography
Angela Christine Smith was born in Grimsby, Lincolnshire, England, and she joined the Labour Party at the age of 16 and worked for the National Health Service for five years before serving as an English lecturer at Dearne Valley College from 1994 to 2003. She served on the Sheffield City Council from 1996 to 2005, when she was elected as the Labour MP for Sheffield Hillsborough; her constituency changed to Penistone and Stocksbridge in 2010. She supported fracking, opposed water re-nationalization, and backed a failed no-confidence motion against Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn in 2016, and her own constituency's Labour Party failed to oust her for her rebelliousness in 2018. In 2019, she defected to Change UK due to allegations of anti-Semitism made against her party.